Year 6: Grammar and punctuation

Use passive voice, formal language and clause punctuation.

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8 original questions with answers and explanations. Use passive voice, formal language and clause punctuation.

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Rewrite in the passive voice: The wind snapped the branch.
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The branch was snapped by the wind.
The branch receives the action and becomes the subject.
Find the subject and object: The keeper opened the gate.
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Subject: the keeper. Object: the gate.
The keeper does the action; the gate receives it.
Choose the formal form: If I was / were the captain, I would listen.
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were
If I were uses the subjunctive for an imagined situation.
Join with a semicolon: The path was muddy. We wore boots.
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The path was muddy; we wore boots.
A semicolon can join two related main clauses.
Add a colon: Bring three things a pencil, a ruler and a rubber.
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Bring three things: a pencil, a ruler and a rubber.
The colon introduces the list.
Add a hyphen to show a machine that makes ice: an ice making machine.
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an ice-making machine
The hyphen joins ice and making to describe what the machine does.
Give a synonym for cautious and an antonym for cautious.
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Synonym: careful. Antonym: reckless.
Accept other words with the same or opposite meaning in a suitable context.
Make this request more formal: Give me the map.
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Please could you give me the map?
Accept a polite, complete request with the same meaning.

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Curriculum source checked 2026-09-30.

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Use passive voice, formal language and clause punctuation.

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